ENDOCRINE ORGANS AND RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
THYROID
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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To send thyroid hormones throughout the body
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To digest food
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To protect your Adam’s Apple
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It doesn’t do anything
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Detailed explanation-1: -It’s a part of your endocrine system and controls many of your body’s important functions by producing and releasing (secreting) certain hormones. Your thyroid’s main job is to control the speed of your metabolism (metabolic rate), which is the process of how your body transforms the food you consume into energy.
Detailed explanation-2: -THs are actively transported across tissue barriers, including placenta, and brain blood barrier (BBB), and into target cells. In circulation free THs are present only in minute amounts and mostly are bound to carrier-proteins.
Detailed explanation-3: -The primary function of the thyroid gland is to secrete two hormones, namely, Triiodothyronine (T3) hormone and the Thyroxine hormone (T4). Both T3 and T4 hormones play a very important role and affect almost every tissue in the body.